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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
Tlie Westminster Review for July, 1861. 
W ahrmund’s Handbuch der neu-Arabisclien Sprache. 
Zamakhsario’s Al-Mufussal, edited by J. P. Brock. 
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LALGOrAL Dutt. 
For October 18G1. 
The monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
was held on the 2nd instant. 
Baku Rajendralal Mitra, Vice-President, in the chair. 
Presentations were received — ■ 
1. From the Secretary to the Government of India, Public 
Works Department, a copy of Colonel Sir P. T. Cautley’s report on 
the Ganges Canal. 
2. From Mr. J. Obbard, some genealogical tables (in Persian) 
of the principal Maliomedan saints, and of the Arsacidan and Sassanian 
dynasties. 
3. From His Excellency the Governor-General, two sandstone 
sculptures (one of them a little mutilated) representing Buddha, 
found among the remains of Kurun Bil near Jubbulpore. 
4. From F. M. Bird, Esq., Magistrate of Goruckpore, two frag- 
ments of the meteorite which fell on the 12th May last, at a distance 
of 42 miles N. and E. of his station ; the larger weighing above 452- 
lbs. avoirdupois. 
Bead the following letter from Mr. J. Obbard, containing some 
further particulars of the comet described in his former communica- 
tion : — 
E. B. Cowell, Esq., 
Secy. Asiatic Society. 
“ Sir, — On the last meeting of the Asiatic Society, I had the 
pleasure of forwarding you an extract from the log of the American 
ship Rival, recording the appearance of a strange comet in the 
Southern hemisphere. 
“ From another paper which I have received this day, there can be 
no doubt that this comet is one and the same with that which has 
been observed in the Northern hemisphere, but that it was observed 
